After every episode of season 5 I would pull my copy of DwD down from the shelf and flip through the approximate chapters that they covered. Pretty much every time I ended up saying to myself "This is so much more interesting than whatever the fuck they're doing in the show." Meereen and Dorne together must have taken…

Sands of Time is easily one of the best games I've ever played. The combat is bad, but everything else about is a master-class in game design and story-telling. Mediocre combat didn't stop Witcher 3 from being awesome, either

The Guild 2 and it's expansions. It's basically the Sims Rennaisance only awful. For some reason every few months I get a hankering to play it, so I install it from Steam and spend a good two weeks playing it. Then I realize "Hey, this game is janky as fuck. Why am I doing this?" and go back to something better, but I…

Every time "Monster" by Kanye West comes up I wonder why there hasn't been a "X Hip-Hop Tracks Where a Featured Artist Has a Clearly Superior Verse" Inventory yet.

Coogan must have not wanted to piss somebody off, because it clearly took a lot for him to not call that what it was, which is the shittiest Alan Rickman impression ever done.

You're gonna dig Words of Radiance. I just finished it and now I kinda want to read his Wheel of Time books cause boy howdy is Sanderson the best big fantasy-battle writer out there today or what?

Somehow I think the kids version left out my favorite passage in all literature:

Yeah, a lot of their songs were written by Aku Yu, who was almost certainly one of the greatest composers of pop music like, ever, in any language.

I first heard Pink Lady as an Assistant Language Teacher in Japan. I usually ate lunch with the students in a classroom, when they were allowed to put on most any music they wanted over the intercom. (The principal was pretty cool) Usually they put on forgettable Japanese or Korean pop music, but one time there was…

Although the article gets it wrong. The Jennings merely live in suburban Virginia. Their office is in Dupont Circle, which is about a ten-minute walk from downtown DC.

Fun Fact: The Unready is actually not what his nickname was in Old English. It's actually more something like "Ill-advised" and is a pun on his name Aethelred which means "Noble Counsel".

I always got the impression that P5 was far more popular among foreigners than they ever were in Japan. Puffy would probably be considered the high point of Shibuya-kei (Jet-CD and Fever Fever were released in 1998 and 1999, respectively. They're both really good albums), while Nakata Yasutaka took it to more…

My junior high English teacher was obsessed with Gary Paulsen and the Brian books. I was into them as well, but in one of my first episodes of real disillusionment with a creator, my teacher played an interview with Paulsen. In it, he's asked the inevitable question about the influence of Jack London on his work, and…

Oh llamas be comin at ya

Well, you know you could. Pretty sure someone is streaming it right now on twitch.tv, although I can't check to make sure cause I'm at work. Or watch a Let's Play on YouTube. I like captnduck and his soothing Dutch accent.

It's hard to recommend any of the Japanese boy bands as something to actually listen to for pleasure, rather than just ironically. I say this as someone who considers Kouhaku one of the highlights of their year, too. Also I know that Arashi is really popular, but failing to mention SMAP is strange, if only because…

But there's nobody at this website writing about Dota or League of Legends at all. A search for "Dota" literally returns no hits, yet it's the most played game on Steam by an insane margin. LoL is mentioned in passing in an article about Twitch, yet the game has at least 67 million active monthly players, at least…

Can you name the truck with 4-wheel drive? Smells like a steak and seats 35! Canyonero!

Honestly I'm just as confused watching an unfamiliar FG as I first was by DOTA, perhaps more. FGs are very technical and I've never found a caster that breaks it down for newbies in an understandable way. Yeah, the basic concept is simple, but it's simple in Dota or LoL, too. At least this year Valve recruited some…

OK I do love fighting games and I'll be watching EVO as much as I can this year, but to publish a long piece about EVO and neglect to mention The International 4, the $10.5 million (and counting) Dota 2 tournament that began preliminaries yesterday is strange. TI4 has a bigger prize pool than the Masters golf…